television is 99% entertainment for the masses. even documentaries are as much fiction as they are fact.

to captivate the television audience the producer can't just give an interview and show it on the tube. no way. it has to be a story with a beginning middle and end [or a beginning, middle and cliff hanger] or the audience will go channel surfing.

obviously the hook was to contrast the smiling sefo to the brooding hunt. sefo loves the competition. hunt wants out. sefo's brother works his corner. hunts dad didn't visit him in prison. sefo beat bernardo. hunt got beat down. wow. these two are opposite sides of the same coin. break for commercial.

not a bad way to approach the story. they're not exactly tanya harding and nancy kerrigan, but there was obviously enough for a small project. as chainsaw pointed out, what mark didn't say on his own, the reporter elicited. mark might be a tough bastard in the ring but he is quite vulnerable to others, such as reporters, on their own turf.

remember when robin givens got tyson on tv and told everyone that it was a fact that he was a manic depressive. mike was dumb struck and humiliated. worst of all he believed it. luckily, his friends fixed that afterward. they had him analyzed by two of the leading shrinks and they both said that givens' public diagnosis was crap. unfortunately, mike dumped those friends for don king and the rest is a history of bad ass mo-fo shit.